Automated text simplification: a survey

SS Al-Thanyyan, AM Azmi - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2021 - dl.acm.org
Text simplification (TS) reduces the complexity of the text to improve its readability and
understandability, while possibly retaining its original information content. Over time, TS has …

The BEA 2024 shared task on the multilingual lexical simplification pipeline

M Shardlow, F Alva-Manchego… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We report the findings of the 2024 Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline shared task.
We released a new dataset comprising 5,927 instances of lexical complexity prediction and …

Fabra: French aggregator-based readability assessment toolkit

R Wilkens, D Alfter, X Wang, A Pintard… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we present the FABRA: readability toolkit based on the aggregation of a large
number of readability predictor variables. The toolkit is implemented as a service-oriented …

DeepBlueAI at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical complexity prediction with a deep ensemble approach

C Pan, B Song, S Wang, Z Luo - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Lexical complexity plays an important role in reading comprehension. lexical complexity
prediction (LCP) can not only be used as a part of Lexical Simplification systems, but also as …

[PDF][PDF] ReSyf: a French lexicon with ranked synonyms

MB Billami, T François, N Gala - 27th International Conference on …, 2018 - hal.science
In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked
according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The …

CEFR-based Contextual Lexical Complexity Classifier in English and French

D Aleksandrova, V Pouliot - Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes a CEFR-based classifier of single-word and multi-word lexical
complexity in context from a second language learner perspective in English and in French …

When readability meets computational linguistics: a new paradigm in readability

T François - Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 2015 - cairn.info
Readability is an almost century-old field that aims to match readers with texts based on
reproducible tools. It has a long history, but it is remarkable that the methodology used to …

Towards single word lexical complexity prediction

D Alfter, E Volodina - Proceedings of the thirteenth workshop on …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
In this paper we present work-in-progress where we investigate the usefulness of previously
created word lists to the task of single-word lexical complexity analysis and prediction of the …

[PDF][PDF] EFLLex: A graded lexical resource for learners of English as a foreign language

L Dürlich, T François - Proceedings of the Eleventh International …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
This paper introduces EFLLex, an innovative lexical resource that describes the use of
15,280 English words in pedagogical materials across the proficiency levels of the …

[BOOK][B] Exploring natural language processing for single-word and multi-word lexical complexity from a second language learner perspective

D Alfter - 2021 - gupea.ub.gu.se
In this thesis, we investigate how natural language processing (NLP) tools and techniques
can be applied to vocabulary aimed at second language learners of Swedish in order to …